WWSCD-World Wide Steel Cowgirl Day

For any of you that have read my ramblings from the start, you may remember me mentioning a group on Facebook called Steel Cowgirls. I believe it’s the first group of all women riders that I joined after learning to ride my own bike. It’s simply a group of women across the world who offer and receive advice on riding as well as some who just need a place to vent and ask advice from other women without being judged.

For me it’s been a place for riding information and a group that had many women who prayed and sent my father in law cards when he was first diagnosed with cancer over a year ago. He is still here with us, praise God!

Anyway with that said, one day each year the group has a World Wide Steel Cowgirl Day designated for riding together across the world. This year’s date was Monday, June 25th and there were many women across this country and also in other countries that made a decision to ride on this specific day. I rode to a Dr. appt and to work and was thinking while I rode how cool it was to know that on this specific day, total strangers were committed to riding to represent their state/country.

If total strangers who have many different beliefs and backgrounds can commit to something like this, support each other, and offer words of advice to build each other up, then why can’t it happen with others across the world in our every day lives just because it’s the right thing to do?

This week has been a strange one for me. Another event happened on Monday that has seemed to be in my thoughts every single day since. I’ve ridden since Monday and even then I couldn’t shake the thoughts of what happened. There was a shooting locally that has left one little boy without a dad because he will probably be in prison for a very long time maybe even for life, and a little girl without her daddy due to being murdered by the other man. Two little children who know each other and whose world will never be the same, and for what?

I can’t help but feel sorry for these two children who will grow up knowing what happened once they’re old enough to know and understand the truth. We live in a world that no longer seems to value life and I simply cannot understand it. The more we remove God from our society, the worse it gets. This is not about guns, it’s about morals and valuing each other as human beings. Someone bent on destruction will find a way regardless of laws or regulations. We need hearts filled with God and with love in my opinion, not filled with ourselves and with hatred.

Usually I can ride and just let it go but this has truly captured my thoughts. Maybe it’s because I now have two little granddaughters and know how much their daddy loves them and they love him and I can’t imagine if they had to grow up without him, or maybe it’s because my husband knew the man who was murdered, I don’t know. It’s just sad to see the world our children and grandchildren will be growing up in compared to the way it was when I was growing up.

We need to get back to the importance of friends and families being there for each other. There seems to be just too much self centeredness, greed, and feelings of contempt.

We were all created in God’s image and none of us is any better than another in His eyes. It’s time we stop being offended by everything, stop feeling like our opinions are the only ones that count and stop condemning others. It’s time to lift each other up. It’s time we show compassion and love for each other.